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Excerpt from The Riviera, or the Coast From Marseilles to Leghorn: Including the Interior Towns of Carrara, Lucca, Pisa, and Pistoia
The beating of his heart might have been heard, if by any mischance the gaolers had entered at that moment. Dantes might have waited until the evening visit was over, but he was afraid the governor might change his resolution, and order the dead body to be removed earlier. In that case his last hepe would have been destroyed. N ow his project was settled under any circumstances, and he hoped thus to carry it into effect. If, during the time he was being conveyed, the grave-diggers should discover that they were conveying a live instead of a dead body, Dantes did not intend to give them time to recognise him, but with a sudden cut of the knife he meant to open the sack from top to bottom, and, profiting by their alarm, escape if they tried to catch him, he would use his knife.
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